Genre: Horror Premise: (from IMDB) A family’s serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them. About: After Get Out took the world by storm, Peele was offered everything in Hollywood. So it was a surprise to all when he rejected all those franchises and made another horror movie. It proved […]

Congrats to Adam and his mysterious co-writer for winning the First 10 Pages Challenge with their script, “Personal Hell” (aka “Girl Who Disturbed The Rat”)!!! He wins a feature consultation from me! Yaaay!! For those of you who weren’t around in January, I set forth a challenge to write 10 pages that were impossible to […]

Will “Us” blow people away like Peele’s first film? Review Monday! Since I think about screenwriting 24/7, I’m often juggling 2-3 big picture screenwriting questions in my head at a time. I mentally lay out the problem, work through potential solutions, and eventually come up with a few tiny insights, failing to crack the elusive […]

Today I teach you how to avoid the thing that did me in as a screenwriter. Genre: Crime/Murder Premise: A jaded detective teams up with a young cocky LA county detective to solve a string of murders in Los Angeles. About: This project just got announced the other day. John Lee Hancock has convinced Denzel […]

Genre: High School Comedy Premise: When two nerdy seniors realize they’re the only girls in class without boyfriends, they try and use the same skills that made them straight A students to ace the ultimate test: find dates for the prom. About: Booksmart is the directorial debut of Olivia Wilde. It just premiered at SXSW […]